Educational

This handy one volume Book/CD is designed to prepare the entry level singer to sharpen their sight-reading skills by providing them with materials for individual study. The CD comes with MP3 files, for student-friendly practice on the computer or MP3 player.

The Titanic soundtrack album's unsinkable success on the 1998 Billboard charts was just the tip of the iceberg. The thousands of songs, CDs and artists that hit Billboard's Pop, Rock, Country, R&B and Adult Contemporary charts in 1998 now appear in Joel Whitburn's 1998 Billboard Music Yearbook - from Fastball to Master P to Brandy & Monica to Tim McGraw. Billboard's 11 major music charts are covered in 11 separate artist-by-artist sections which give detailed chart data on every hit. For each entry, you'll find the date of its chart debut, peak position, total weeks on the chart, original label and number, and much more. No other book chronicles all of the year's music as deeply.

This completely revised and updated 31st annual edition of Songwriter's Market provides must-have information you need to get your songs heard and signed. No matter what the genre - from rock or hip-hop to classical or country - the 2008 Songwriter's Market is the reliable reference that beginners and professionals have turned to time and time again to help start and build successful songwriting careers. You'll find the contacts, what they're looking for, and how much they pay. This edition includes: interviews with master songwriter Paul Williams and current pop songwriting sensation Kara DioGuardi; information-packed articles by respected authors John Braheny and Pat and Pete Luboff; updated listings of numerous music companies - music publishers, record companies, record producers - as well as resource listings for networking and support including songwriter support organizations, conferences, music web sites, and online communities.

With a world full of many conflicting voices, it's not always easy to find your own. When you do, you might feel that it is regularly lost in the din of the world. But this is not true. You do have a voice and your contribution is essential to creating a world of genuine harmony. One of America's best-loved musical personalities, John Jacobson brings you this collection of heartwarming essays and inspirational stories. Not just for music teachers, this book is full of life lessons for all of us, so we each can find our very own place in the choir. Available in hard cover.

Elevate your music curriculum to a new and more creative level with this resource from elementary music expert Loretta Norgon. With dozens of suggestions and ready-to-implement strategies, this book will allow you to extend and enrich even the most successful music department. For time-saving value, a variety of reproducible teaching aids are included in each of the eleven sections. Sections include: Music Auction, Musical Telegram Team, Senior Citizen Volunteer Program, Intergenerational Choir, Performance Ideas, Extra-Curricular Music Clubs, Grant Writing, Guest Performances, Public Relations, Career Day, and Hall of Fame.

This deluxe publication combines various techniques from top representatives in the record business and creates a precise technology for negotiating recording contracts. Using a hierarchy of deals points, the book outlines specific strategies for protecting assets in numerous scenarios, including specific contracts for first-time artists, songwriters, and established artists. This spiral-bound volume and slipcase package is geared to the day-to-day demands of active professionals in the music and recording business. The publication includes deal memo anatomy and analysis, charts for royalty calculations, techniques to tweak deal points, cross-referencing to other major texts, tools for identifying a quality attorney or artist/client, and periodic updates and access to information about record deals that you cannot find anywhere else.

Nearly three years in the making, Alan Parsons' monumental ten-hour video series, The Art & Science of Sound Recording, is now available in a three-DVD boxed set! Narrated by actor and musician Billy Bob Thornton, the DVDs are divided into 24 sections, starting with a brief history of recording.Parsons' illustrious career as a recording engineer, producer, composer and artist acts as both backdrop and inspiration for the series. Parsons worked with The Beatles on the albums Abbey Road and Let It Be, engineered Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and produced a string of multi-platinum hits for The Hollies, Pilot, Ambrosia, Al Stewart and other artists, as well as for The Alan Parsons Project.Filmed in HD, this the most powerful instructional series ever created for music production. The Art & Science of Sound Recording looks at everything from soundproofing to mixing, and from recording guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals, to recording a choir. Fellow professional engineers & producers join Alan Parsons in this top quality, practical, and cutting-edge guide, including Jack Joseph Puig, John Fields, Elliot Scheiner, Jack Douglas, Tony Brown and Chuck Ainlay. Artists and musicians interviewed include Michael McDonald, Taylor Hawkins, Nathan East, Rami Jaffe, Carol Kaye and Erykah Badu.. This invaluable instructional DVD set applies classic, old school recording experience to the modern recording scene, and is certain to be a standard work on the subject for years to come. Along with its fully interactive website, The Art & Science of Sound Recording is a complete course in modern recording.

This new book reviewed and authorized by Alesis Corporation will help you master the QS Keyboard, 6.1 thru 8.1! It contains information-packed chapters written using a simple do this, do that approach that gets you performing and recording with the QS MIDI keyboard quickly. Topics covered include: set up connections with the back panel banks and how they're organized saving sounds to the user bank and PCMIA cards mix mode panning and setting levels within the QS mix MIDI control changes live performing and sequencing using the QS as a MIDI controller with a slave device editing programs, sounds, voices and effects creating custom drum sets reinitializing the QS and much more!

For value-packed recorder fun at your fingertips, here is a seasonal collection of 12 expertly written arrangements for recorders with accompanying Orff instruments, percussion and piano parts. All parts are reproducible. Difficulty levels range from easy to intermediate, beginning with a variety of creative B-A-G songs. Melodies and rhythms become more difficult as notes are added to these progressive tunes for more challenge as the year goes on. Young performers are exposed to a diversity of musical styles ranging from classical, blues, swing to country, Latin and Broadway. And there's more! The enclosed CD provides tracks with and without the recorder part for both classroom and performance options. Keep student interest high with exciting, motivating and hip tracks that accompany the simpler, age-appropriate recorder parts. A winning combination! Available: Book/CD Pak. For Gr. 4-6.

For MORE value-packed recorder fun at your fingertips, here are twelve MORE expertly written arrangements for recorder with accompanying Orff instruments, percussion and piano parts and all parts are reproducible! Beginning with a variety of creative B-A-G songs, the melodies and rhythms gradually become more challenging as notes are added as the year goes on. And there's more! The enclosed CD provides tracks with and without the recorder part for both classroom and performance options. Keep student interest high with exciting, motivating and hip tracks that accompany the simpler, age-appropriate recorder parts. A winning combination! Available: Book/CD. For Gr. 4-6.